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1. IOR/L/PS/9/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70
Title:
Letters from Persia
Scope & Content:
Letters from British representatives in Persia: Henry Willock and John Macdonald. With enclosures (listed separately)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1827
Extent:
12 boxes, 230 items

2. IOR/L/PS/9/70/158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/158
Title:
‘Memorandum of Conferences with H.R.H. Abbas Meerza’
Scope & Content:
Memorandum of the conferences between John McNeill, the assistant to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, and Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār]. In the memorandum McNeill reports having informed Abbas Meerza of intel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1826?
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/70/212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/212
Title:
‘Translation of a letter from Commandant Chelneff to the Envoy’
Scope & Content:
Translation of a letter from Commandant Chelneff [Chelnev] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. In the letter, Chelneff requests that Macdonald Kinneir communicate to the Prince Royal (Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār) his wish...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/70/108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/108
Title:
‘Meerza Abul Hussun Khan to Count Nesselrode’
Scope & Content:
The translation of a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Persia [Iran], Meerza Abul Hussun Khan [Mirza Abū al-Ḥasan Khan Shīrāzī], in Sultaneah [Solţānīyeh], to Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia, Count Karl Robert Nesselrode, dated 18 Zerhugel [Zū al-Ḥijjah] AH 1241 [24 July 182...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1826
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/70/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/187
Title:
‘Translation of a note from the Cayim Mukam to M. Noskoff’
Scope & Content:
The translation of a note from the Vizier of the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran], the Cayim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām], to Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a crystal couch to the Shah of Persia. In the letter, the Cayim Mukam in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827?
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/70/181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/181
Title:
‘Exposé of the causes of the war given for Mirza Mohomed Alli’s guidance on his mission to Tiflis’
Scope & Content:
A translation of an ‘exposé’ of the causes of the outbreak of war between Russia and Persia [Iran] [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] given to Mirza Mohomed Alli [Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Shirazi] for his mission to Tiflis [Tbilisi]. The paper details Persian allegations of Russian encroachments upo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827?
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/70/53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/53
Title:
‘Translation of His Royal Highness Abbas Mirzas answer to His Excellency Lieut General Wilhemenoff’
Scope & Content:
Translation of a letter from the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], Abbas Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], to Lieutenant-General Wilhemenoff. The letter is in reply to Wilhemenoff’s letter concerning the Sirdar of Erivan [Yerevan] having driven Russian soldiers away from territory on the shores of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/70/107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/107
Title:
‘Prince Menchikoff to Ausef ud Dowleh’
Scope & Content:
The translation of a letter from the Russian envoy to Persia [Iran], Prince Menchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], at Sooltaneeah [Solţānīyeh], to the Prime Minister of Persia, the Ausef ud Dowleh [Allah Yar Khan Qajar Davallu, Asif al-Dawlah], of 21 July 1826. In the letter, Prince...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jul 1826
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/70/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/91
Title:
Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Shiraz, to the Secretary at East India House, Joseph Dart
Scope & Content:
Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Shiraz, to the Secretary at East India House, Joseph Dart, of 9 June 1826. The letter originally enclosed a packet to be forwarded to England (not included in this item) and copies of Macdonal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1826
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/70/161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/161
Title:
‘Translation of the instructions delivered to Meerza Mahomed Ali proceeding on a mission to Tiflis’
Scope & Content:
Translation of instructions intended to be given to Meerza Mahomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Shīrāzī] for his mission to Tiflis [Tbilisi], which were subsequently rescinded (see postscript of IOR/L/PS/9/70/156). They instruct Meerza Mahomed Ali to proceed to Tiflis and ensure the safe return...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1826?
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)